Word: lombardos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invite delegates from ex-enemy countries, i.e., Rumania, Finland, Bulgaria, who would presumably always support the Soviet delegation. French, Indian and Polish delegates backed Britain. Russian Delegate M. P. Tarasov flatly rejected the "extremely unpersuasive" arguments of "Comrade Citrine." Strongest Soviet backer turned out to be fiery Vicente Lombardo Toledano, of the potent Confederation de Trabajadores de America Latina. The capable Mexican labor leader, having in recent years extended his organization into other Latin American countries, was able as the representative of some 4,000,000 workers to make his strength felt. An open split was averted by the arrival...
...Lombardo and his Royal Canadians will open a new series of "Musical Autograph" programs honoring American colleges at war, with a salute to Harvard tomorrow evening at 10 o'clock. Featuring the favorite songs of Harvard men, as determined by an informal SERVICE SEWS poll, the broadcast will be aired over 165 stations of the Blue Network. Lombardo has just completed a series of programs honoring the nation's various war industries...
...Gets in Your Eyes, Is You is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Rhapsody in Blue, Night and Day, I'll Be Seeing You, Star Dust, Swinging on a Star, and All the Things You Are. These songs will be played in the smooth manner that gained for Lombardo's Royal Canadian orchestra recognition of the "sweetest music this side of heaven...
Featuring the spirited strains of "Harvardiana," Guy Lombardo will open his newest "Musical Autograph" series, on American colleges at war, with a salute to Harvard over 165 stations of the Blue Network this Saturday evening. The broadcast, which will begin at 10 o'clock, will feature the favorite songs of Harvard students together with a description of the part the University is playing in the national war effort as a training center for leadership and a laboratory for many of the outstanding American scientific contributions to victory. In an informal sampling poll of representative students this morning, the SERVICE NEWS...
...first anti-U.S. demonstration in Mexico since 1940 (when disgruntled Almazanistas stoned the U.S. Embassy building where Vice President Henry A. Wallace was dining). Mexican newspapers carried full accounts of the incident, considered it a protest against U.S. racial discrimination against Mexicans. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the Confederation of Latin American Workers, saw it as part of "gigantic Nazi maneuvers" in the Western Hemisphere...